Multilingual Document Image Analysis

Automatic document processing plays a crucial role in the present society, due to the progressive move towards the concept of "Paperless Office". Multilingual document processing is one of the important steps of automatic document processing which leads to the paperless office automation. This book will explore methodologies for multilingual document analysis systems with particular focus on Script and language identification. The scope of script and language identification is defined to include number of algorithms that are capable of identifying more than one script/language in the same document at text block, text line and word level